We were really pleased to fill Woods Restaurant's main dining room for our annual Grower's Dinner. 65 people sat down to a splendid 4 course meal accompanied by wines from the Southwest of France. Our guest, Alfonso Calderon, flew in for the event from his base near Pau. He represents several vineyards including Domaine de Bordes (Cotes de Gascogne), Clos Thou (Jurancon), Chateau Bovila (Cahors) and Chateau de Millet (Armagnac). All of which were poured during the evening. It was a really enjoyable affair. Huge thanks must go to David Price at Woods and his team who served us brilliantly throughout as well as looking after some other guests in their other room - no mean feat.
We tripped out, happily, at about 1am (some of us literally, I gather) with the hard core (Will and his brother, Tom) entertaining our guest until much later. Following the expected (and delivered) comments about the shortcomings of French international rugby and the relative talents of one Laporte, we took Alfonso to see Bath play Leicester the next day. Nursing a slight 'gueule-de-bois', he was able to see Bath thrash the visitors. Happy days!
Cheers!
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